Who is the most important person who ever existed

Not in Kansas

Bach or Beethoven.

FromADistance

Arthur Guinness*







*Ye can close this thread now... we've found a winner :lol

Hector Savage

Amirani wrote: »

Mohammed.

You think a warlord that was a peadophile, took sex slaves, murdered thousands , was the most important person ?????


wow

ellee

Jesus and Mohammed like it or not are clearly the "winners" here.

Two enormous globe encompassing faiths that impact politically, socially and materially to this day on the lives of almost everyone on the planet frankly.

To have an interesting discussion, you'd have to exclude those 2 I think.

Capt'n Midnight

kevthegaff wrote: »

Alexander Fleming, through penecillin and other antibiotics, has extended life expectancy.

The actual work was done by others later.

It was a discovery and would have happened at some time. Pasteur or Koch would have been more important perhaps.

Ficheall

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

The guy a couple of hundred thousand years ago who decided to make the first fire.

Already mentioned on the first page:

Deleted User wrote: »

Niall

Hector Savage

ellee wrote: »

Jesus and Mohammed like it or not are clearly the "winners" here.

Two enormous globe encompassing faiths that impact politically, socially and materially to this day on the lives of almost everyone on the planet frankly.

To have an interesting discussion, you'd have to exclude those 2 I think.

Good point, but I look at "important" as important for the progression and enlightenment of humans.

Capt'n Midnight

FuzzyThinking wrote: »

Tbh you could go through every major breakthrough scientist. All the developments in communication technology from writing, to the printing press, to telegraph, to telephone, radio, tv, and ultimately the internet, every artist, every political leader and everyone else and you still would struggle to find that one human, because they didn’t exist in isolation.

It’s very hard to define a single person in humanity who changed everything or who was the most important in history.

Like it or not, we’re a huge collective of some sort, and one idea plays into the next.

My view of it is as population and connectivity increases, so does idea generation, creative bandwidth and ability to process new ideas.

We’re a network that’s much greater than the sum of its parts.

The first person to use written symbols to transfer ideas or concepts to another was the most important. After that everything was possible.



Konrad Zuse invented the computer. But others did too. And just like the others he used technology that became obsolete overnight when transistors became cheap.

If only Babbage had used binary for his difference engine

NuttyMcNutty

Whoever does the payroll:P

thomil

thomil wrote: »

I'd say it's a close race between Lt. Col. Petrov and Commodore Arkhipov during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)

And the way they were treated...

machiavellianme

Deleted User wrote: »

Niall

Of the 9 hostages?
Responsible for more than 20% of our population!

Jimbob1977

Flash Gordon - I thank you for saving every one of us.

Gary McKay of Scotland. Sofia 1987.

ellee

Hector Savage wrote: »

Good point, but I look at "important" as important for the progression and enlightenment of humans.

But that is exactly what they delivered hence the enormous faith followings and impact etc etc.


In fairness our whole moral code & legal systems in the West comes from Judaeo Christian thought.

Ironman76

Alan Turing

Capt'n Midnight

Ironman76 wrote: »

Alan Turing

What did he do that Konrad Zuse didn't ?

Zuse designed and built a Turing complete computer.

bitofabind

Brian McFadden

Capt'n Midnight

Moeriscus let the Romans in during the Siege of Syracuse.

That ultimately decided the history of Europe and hence the world, otherwise it could have been the Greeks or Carthaginians who dominated.

cavemeister

IMO it's probably Charles V of Spain who was a forefather in the abolishment of African slavery to and from Europe and the Americas.

jetsonx

Probably Roger Moore.

The gun fight he had at dawn on the beach with Francisco Scaramanga, which was refereed by a midget, proved a seminal moment for western civilisation.

Cienciano

Gavrilo Princip if going non religious

ancapailldorcha

Cienciano wrote: »

Gavrilo Princip if going non religious

I'd disagree. The mess of alliances and tensions in the region meant that something would have kicked off the first world war. It's called the Balkan Powderkeg for a reason.

Markcheese

silliussoddius wrote: »

Rollo

The walker ? He definitely had a big impact - but the most important ?

Mimon

the purple tin wrote: »

Karl Marx. Well over a hundred million people were killed because of him. Billions have had or are having a miserable life thanks to his unique brand of twattery.

The Russians ran with his ideas, maybe somewhere a bit less mental might have made a better go of it.

handlemaster

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

Hard beat Jesus here. Even though Ger Loughnane did bring Clare to two All Ireland’s from a low base in 1994.[/QUOTE

Can Jesus be described as a person , apparently he was the son of God and part of the trinity . I dont think if you believe in Jesus you could say he was person.

Genre..

I wouldn't have had Jesus Christ on the list

I assumed all that was a fairy story

Tom Hanks

for the movie

Forest Gump

Then

The Davinci Code Angels & Demons movies

Then saving Private Ryan

QED

machiavellianme

Deleted User wrote: »

Tom Hanks

for the movie

Forest Gump

Then

The Davinci Code Angels & Demons movies

Then saving Private Ryan

QED

Wrong order. Plus, some of those are crimes against film.

2lazytogetup

there was an African woman Mitochondrial Eve from around Botswana that they can link all humans from,. So if she didnt exist or didnt have children, we probably wouldnt exist. argument for alternative evolution.

imagine going back 200,000 years and meeting her and telling her that she is going to have billions of grandkids and be responsible for humankind.

Elwood_Blues

John Doe

Hamsterchops

Alex Ferguson.